The Baby Boycott / Stephanie Mencimer.
by Mencimer, Stephanie; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 16Family. Publisher: Washington Monthly, 2001ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Child rearing | Childbirth -- Statistics | Childlessness | Motherhood | Women -- Economic conditions | Women -- Employment | Work and family | Working mothersDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Between 1976 and 1998, the number of women between the ages of 40 and 44 who were childless doubled. Now [2001], 20 percent of baby boomer women are childless and likely to remain so, and demographers predict that as much as a quarter of American women born between 1956 and 1972 will never have children." (WASHINGTON MONTHLY) The author attempts to uncover why "40 percent of American women are sharply curtailing or abandoning motherhood altogether" in her exploration of "today's childless revolution.".
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: The Baby Boycott, June 2001; pp. 14-19.
"Between 1976 and 1998, the number of women between the ages of 40 and 44 who were childless doubled. Now [2001], 20 percent of baby boomer women are childless and likely to remain so, and demographers predict that as much as a quarter of American women born between 1956 and 1972 will never have children." (WASHINGTON MONTHLY) The author attempts to uncover why "40 percent of American women are sharply curtailing or abandoning motherhood altogether" in her exploration of "today's childless revolution.".
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